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Google Alert Results 10/21/05:

SCHOOL + THREAT

Not a real threat, but a "cute" quote in this one...
Gas leak triggers school evacuation
On Monday, Norton Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) detected a gas leak at Henri A. Yelle Elementary School in an old unused line underneath the kitchen oven.
(...)"Some high school students (there for a meeting -LR) selflessly gave up their geometry and Spanish classes to help out with the Yelle school," Dewar said. "But seriously, their help was appreciated."

Security measures taken by local districts when bomb threat reported St. Joseph County schools, along with every school system is the State of Michigan, were targeted by a bomb threat Thursday afternoon.
A press release from Sturgis Public Schools stated that about 12:30 p.m., the Berrien County Sheriff’s Department received a phone call saying that a bomb was or would be placed in a Michigan school and would detonate in two hours

Midland students evacuated over bomb threat
ONA -- Students at Cabell Midland High School endured yet another evacuation Thursday morning after a bomb threat was found Wednesday afternoon in a boys' bathroom stall.

Bomb threat under investigation
Police and South Brunswick High School officials are investigating a bomb threat made against the school.
The administration at South Brunswick High School and township police are looking into whether a bomb threat made against the school for Oct. 31 was a prank or a serious threat.
A letter sent Oct. 17 to high school parents by Principal Tim Matheny says the administration doesn't believe the threat, which came in the form of a message scratched into a boy's bathroom stall, is credible.

BOMB THREAT

Capitol police detonate suspicious package
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Police blew up a suspicious package in a car parked near the U.S. Capitol on Friday, more than two hours after the two occupants told authorities they had an explosive in the vehicle.

Police close streets near Capitol in bomb scare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police closed several streets near the Capitol building on Friday and were questioning two men and examining their car after one of the man suggested he had an explosive device, U.S. Capitol Police said.

Evacuee pleads guilty to making bomb threats to Red Cross
MONROE, La. A Hurricane Katrina evacuee who called the Red Cross and threatened to blow up targets related to FEMA, the Red Cross, and Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi will be sentenced in March.
Thirty-eight-year-old Billy Wayne Livingston, of Gulfport, Mississippi, who reportedly lost his home in Hurricane Katrina, pleaded guilty in U-S District Court in Monroe to making bomb threats over the telephone.

GEORGIA TECH:

Georgia Tech student indicted on three felony counts
ATLANTA - The Georgia Tech student accused of making a bottle bomb that exploded and forced the evacuation of two dormitories was indicted Friday on three felony counts.
Theodore Hollot, 18, faces charges of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and two counts of possessing an explosive device, said Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard. He also faces a misdemeanor count of reckless conduct.

COLLEGE CAMPUS

Suspicious package prompts evacuation
Robot retrieves bag of muffins
University (of Georgia -LR) Police and security personnel evacuated the Student Learning Center Thursday morning when police received a phone call about a suspicious package.
(...)The package was sitting in the empty dispenser with a note that “had negative remarks about the government,” Williamson said.

SUSPICIOUS

Suspicious looking box prompts an evacuation
ARTESIA — A suspicious looking box with the word “explosives” written on its side caused Artesia police to barricade a two-block radius of an Artesia neighborhood and evacuate nearby residents Wednesday morning.

OU RELATED:

FR Threads:
Two men arrested under OU campus

OU takes extra security precautions

AT MY BLOG:

BREAKING NEWS - Two students charged with stealing vial from OU Zoology Dept